Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Hampton Creek (Just Mayo) Reports an Attempted Employee Coup

As we've pointed out over the years, the tactics from Luttwak's Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, begin with seizing the means of communication.*
Apparently that chapter was missing from the coupsters copy of the book.

San Francisco vegan food startup Hampton Creek fired three top employees after learning of an alleged coup attempt, company representatives announced.
The reportedly secret effort to give new investors more power in the
Silicon Valley unicorn didn’t fly with its CEO and controlling
shareholder Josh Tetrick, a sometimes controversial leader who’s had egg on his face during past scandals.

“This morning, our co-founder and CEO Josh Tetrick,
shared the sad news with our team that three senior managers have been
terminated for attempting to change our company’s corporate governance,”
representatives wrote in a statement.

Known for vegan salad dressings, cookie dough, and
condiments like “Just Mayo,” Hampton Creek was an early venture capital
darling. It’s raised $239 million in funding at a valuation of more than
$1 billion from the likes of Khosla Ventures and Peter Thiel’s Founders
Fund.

But recent funding efforts have been less successful, and last month
the company fired its chiefs of finance, operations, and HR. It’s now
parted ways with three more senior staff members — Chief Technology
Officer, V.P. of research and development, and V.P. of business
development — over their alleged coup....MORE

In league with Keohane she has apparently implemented the tactics from Luttwak's Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, beginning with seizing the means of communication.

Has anyone heard from Paul Murphy since this morning?....

...Here's the predicted schedule of events:

DURING the past 23 years, more than half of the world's governments have
been overthrown by coups d'etat. Conspirators are increasingly aware
that complex societies are vulnerable to attack. Slash a wire, start a
rumor, dump LSD into reservoirs: today any determined guerrilla can
stop The System. One man with one bullet can change history. A handful
can take over a country.
-TIME